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It is well known that the space of all inequivalent central extensions of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}\) by \(\mathbb{R}\) is isomorphic to the real second cohomology group of \({\mathfrak g}\) [see, for example, \textit{G. M. Tuynman} and \textit{W. A. Wiegerinck}, Central extensions and physics, J. Geom. Phys. 4, 207-258 (1987; Zbl 0649.58014)]. In this paper the author generalizes this result to a Lie bialgebra, basing himself on his earlier paper [J. Geom. Phys. 15, 301-304 (1995; Zbl 0845.17019)]. For this purpose, the author introduces the cohomology group of a Lie bialgebra \({\mathfrak g}\) in the following way: he takes \({\mathcal D}={\mathfrak g}\bowtie{\mathfrak g}^*\), the double of the Lie bialgebra \({\mathfrak g}\), considers the natural projection \(\bigwedge{\mathcal D}\to\bigwedge{\mathfrak g}\) and notices that the kernel \(\text{ker} (\bigwedge{\mathcal D}\to\bigwedge{\mathfrak g})\) is a differential subcomplex of \(\bigwedge{\mathcal D}\); its cohomology groups are just defined as the cohomology groups \(H_{\text{big}}^* ({\mathfrak g}, \mathbb{R})\) of \({\mathfrak g}\). The result is: the second group of cohomology \(H_{\text{big}}^2 ({\mathfrak g}, \mathbb{R})\) is isomorphic to the space of all inequivalent central extensions of a Lie bialgebra \({\mathfrak g}\).